20XX instal the new version for ipod1/12/2024 My personal jam sessions weren’t about cherishing $1.29 singles anymore – they were about discovery, abundance, and choice. Suddenly, I was listening to more music than I ever had before. Now, the songs I wanted to hear didn’t even need to be purchased and downloaded. My iPod was laid to rest in one of my junk drawers.īut there was a clear straight line from my experience with the iPod to the streaming services like Spotify that I and many others shifted to in later years. There was no need for me to carry two devices that both relied on the same music library. Sofia Barrett/CNNĪs my iPod replaced my skipping CD player, the iPhone I got in high school replaced it. Sofia Barrett's iPod nano (3rd generation) from 2007. I was curating my own experience, listening to the artists I wanted, on my own terms. My entire music listening experience felt gamified – sometimes quite literally, in the form of the ‘Music Quiz’ game on my iPod – which wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. It was concerning how much I parsed my enjoyment of Rihanna’s “Disturbia” into numbers as opposed to how ‘danceable’ it was. On iTunes, I used every data column at my disposal: last played, date added, number of skips, and release date. On my iPod, I kept an eye on the Recently Played and Top Rated playlists that came pre-programmed. My music taste and enjoyment was all at once simplified into data points.Īs I started to use my iPod and iTunes daily, the data helped me understand my listening habits. I found myself caring far too much about iTunes data showing when an album was released, what genre it was classified as, and how many times I replayed each track. It was more transportable, came in pretty colors and made it easy to listen to far more artists at a time.īut the next generation of music listening also changed how I thought about the music. Sure, my generation had always been able to take their music with them - in my case, starting with using my parents’ portable CD player in elementary school - but the iPod took that to another level.
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